Freud Flashcards
a disorder typically characterized by paralysis or
the improper functioning of certain parts of the body
(wandering womb)
Hysteria
the process of removing hysterical
symptoms through “talking them out.”
Catharsis
contains all those drives, urges, or instincts
that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless
motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions.
Unconscious
neuroses have their
etiology in a child’s seduction by a parent
Seduction theory
a portion of our unconscious
originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that
have been passed on to us through hundreds of
generations of repetition
Phylogenetic endowment
contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become
conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
Preconscious
What a person perceives is conscious for only a
transitory period; quickly passes into the preconscious when the
focus of attention shifts to another idea
Conscious perception
defined as those mental elements in awareness at any
given point in time
Conscious
- images that slipped the guard and are now waiting at
the preconscious in a disguised form
Unconscious
what we perceive through our
sense organs, if not too threatening, enters into consciousness
Perceptual conscious system
- core of personality and completely
unconscious - derived from the impersonal pronoun
meaning “the it,” or the not-yet-owned
component of personality
Id or Das Es/The It
the only region of the mind in contact
with reality (reality principle)
Ego/ Das Ich
- represents the moral and ideal aspects
of personality - guided by the moralistic and idealistic
principles
Superego/Das Uber-Ich (“Over-I”)
results from experiences with
punishments for improper
behavior and tells us what we
should not do
Conscience
develops from experiences
with rewards for proper
behavior and tells us what we
should do
Ego-ideal
refer to a drive or a stimulus within
the person
Trieb (German Word)
is the amount of force
it exerts
Impetus
is the region of the body
in a state of excitation or
tension
Source
is to seek pleasure by
removing that excitation or
reducing the tension
Aim
is the person or thing
that serves as the means
through which the aim is
satisfied
Object
refers to the infantile
state in which an individual’s primary
focus is on themselves and their own
needs
Primary narcissism
develops later in
life as a result of disappointment or
frustration in relationships or in achieving
one’s desires.
Secondary narcissism
develops when people invest their libido on an
object or person other than themselves
Love
is the need for sexual pleasure by inflicting
pain or humiliation on another person
Sadism
experience sexual pleasure from suffering
pain and humiliation inflicted either by themselves or
by others
Masochism
a book that elevated
aggression to the level of the sexual drive
Beyond the pleasure principle
final aim of the aggressive drive
Self-destruction
aim of the destructive drive
Return organism to inorganic state (e.g. death)
Freud emphasized that it is a felt, affective,
unpleasant state accompanied by a physical
sensation that warns the person against
impending danger
Anxiety
is defined as
apprehension about an unknown
danger
Neurotic anxiety
stems from the conflict
between the ego and the superego
Moral anxiety
is closely related to
fear. It is defined as an unpleasant,
nonspecific feeling involving a
possible danger; different from fear in
that it does not involve a specific fearful
object
Realistic anxiety
are normal and universally used, when carried
to an extreme they lead to compulsive, repetitive, and neurotic
behavior.
Defense mechanisms
is to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive implosives and to defend itself against the anxiety that accompanies them
Ego’s purpose
whenever the ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protects itself by repressing those impulses; that is, it forces threatening feelings into the unconsciousness
Repression
one of the ways in which a repressed impulse may become conscious is through adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form
Reaction formation
people can redirect their unacceptable urges onto a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised or concealed
Displacement
when the prospect of taking the next step becomes too anxiety provoking, the ego may resort to the strategy of remaining at the present, more comfortable psychological stage
Fixation
once the libido has passed a developmental stage, it may, during
times of stress and anxiety, revert back to that earlier stages
Regression
defined as seeing in others unacceptable feelings or tendencies
that actually reside in one’s own unconscious
Projection
A mental disorder characterized by powerful
delusions of jealousy and persecution
Paranoia
is a defense mechanism whereby people incorporate positive
qualities of another person into their own ego
Introjection
is the repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting a
cultural or social aim
Sublimation
reenacting traumatic event or putting oneself in
situations where the event is likely to happen again
Repetition compulsion
accepting partial or modified fulfillment of desires
Aim inhibition
parts of self are separated from awareness of other
people
Compartmentalization
justifying one’s conduct by offering socially
acceptable reasons in place of real reasons
Rationalization
believing certain facts
that do not exist
Denial
people overachieve in
one area to compensate
for failures in another
Compensation
time when a child receives nourishment
without anxiety/frustration
Oral receptive
the primitive urge to use the mouth, lips, and
teeth as instruments of aggression, mastery, or sadistic sexual gratification (weaning is already scheduled and they protest it happening)
Oral sadistic
happens when the person is either
undernourished or over-nourished
Fixation
argumentative and exploitative (ex.
Smoking)
Oral aggressive
to strengthen the ego, to make it more
independent of the superego, to
widen its field of perception and
enlarge its organization, so that it can
appropriate fresh portions of the id.
Where id was, there ego shall be
Purpose of psychoanalysis
primary goal of Freud’s later
psychoanalytic therapy
to
uncover repressed memories through
free association and dream analysis
patients are required to verbalize every
thought comes to their mind, no matter how irrelevant or
repugnant it may appear
Free association
refer to the strong sexual or aggressive feelings,
positive or negative, that patients develop toward their analyst
during the course of treatment
Transference
strong, hostile, and undeserved feelings
that the patient develops toward the analyst during the course of
treatment
Negative transference
which refers to a variety of unconscious responses
used by
Resistance
strong, undeserved feelings that the
therapist develops toward the patient during the course of
treatment
Countertransference
to transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important
latent content
Dream analysis
– the surface meaning or the conscious description
given by the dreamer
Manifest content
– refers to its unconscious material
Latent content
variety of unconscious responses used by patients to
block their own progress in therapy
Resistance
refers to the fact that the manifest dream content is not as extensive as the latent level, indicating that the unconscious material has been abbreviated or condensed before appearing on the manifest level
Condensation
means that the dream
image is replaced by some other idea
only remotely related to it
Displacement
faulty function
Fehlleistung
one of Freud’s translators,
invented the term parapraxes
James Strachley
administered to unveil unconscious
motives
Projective tests
according to Freud, for a joke to be funny, it
must contain anxiety provoking material
Humor
